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6 Steps To Strengthen Team Cohesion

Tanveer Naseer

Ensure employees get real-time feedback to help assess their performance There’s a common consensus amongst the various studies on employee engagement that leaders need to be giving more feedback to their employees. Of course, what makes delegation so effective depends on what we choose to delegate to various members of our team.

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How Peer Pressure Can Lead To Punitive Behaviors

The Horizons Tracker

It transpired that people were using their peers’ preferences as a guidepost for the value they should place on punishment, while the group consensus also emboldened them to make decisions that conformed to that consensus. ” Adaptive conformity.

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126: Holacracy – An Agile Management System for a Rapidly Changing World | with Brian Robertson

Engaging Leader

is delegating authority for planning and decisions. For example, a lack of clarity encourages people to avoid making decisions, or else to seek only decisions that have a full consensus, slowing everything down until there is a crisis that prompts the big boss to momentarily return to command-and-control leadership.

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-05-13

Tanveer Naseer

ScottEblin has some tips on what to do [link] # communication # Interesting model by @ RedBaronUSA on how to build team consensus in organizations [link] # Check out @ mikemyatt ‘s take on the importance of valuing those white spaces in # leadership [link] # Thanks Paul! Thanks Kathy!

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. In fact, most differences don’t require intervention as they actually contribute to a dynamic, creative, innovative culture. The Importance Factor : Not every difference needs to be resolved. I Think Not.

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Avoid These Traps and LOL for Peak Performance

The Practical Leader

Managers must LOL — lead out loud — if they are going to bring about culture change and shift behavior for higher levels of customer service, quality, safety, productivity, or innovation. You and your managers cannot set bold new directions and then delegate their implementation. But you must stay the course.

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If You Think Your Team Makes Decisions, Think Again

Harvard Business Review

True, a presentation is made, ideas get kicked around the table, arguments and counterarguments arise, opinions form, compromises are struck, and a consensus emerges. First: "Were you part of the consensus?" It might be a recommendation, or a preferred option, or a consensus view, but it wasn't a decision. Nor should it.